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ceramics ceramics
ceramics , materials made of nonmetallic minerals that have been permanently hardened by firing at a high temperature, or objects made of such materials. Most ceramics resist heat and chemicals and are poor conductors of heat and electricity. Traditional ceramics are made of clay and other natural... Read more
Le Cateau Le Cateau
Le Cateau or Le Cateau-Cambrésis , town (1993 est. pop. 7,789), Nord dept., N France, in French Flanders. It has textile, metallurgical, and ceramic industries. The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559) returned the last English foothold on the continent to France. Le Cateau was the... Read more
Clarice Clarice
Clarice ♀ Medieval English and French form of the Latin name Claritia. This may have meant ‘fame’ (an abstract derivative of clārus ‘famous’), but as a given name it may have been no more than an arbitrary elaboration of Clara. It was borne by a character... Read more
Howard Carter Howard Carter
Howard Carter 1874-1939, English Egyptologist. He served (1891-99) with the Egyptian Exploration Fund and later helped to reorganize the antiquities administration for the Egyptian government. Carter's successful excavations (1906-22) with Lord Carnarvon in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt,... Read more
Minden Minden
Minden , city (1994 pop. 80,423), North Rhine-Westphalia, NW Germany, a port on the Weser River and the Midland Canal. It is an industrial center and rail junction. Manufactures include textiles, ceramics, glass, chemicals, beer, furniture, and foundry products. Minden was the see of a bishopric... Read more
Faenza Faenza
Faenza , city (1991 pop. 54,139), in Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy, on the Lamone River. A special kind of richly colored ceramic, called faience or majolica, has been made there since the 12th cent.; ceramic art flourished from 1450 to 1550 and was revived in the 18th cent. The Manfredi family,... Read more
Sevres Sevres
Sèvres , town (1990 pop. 22,057), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France, on the Seine River; a residential suburb SW of Paris. The famous Sèvres ware porcelain is made in the town, which has a ceramics museum founded by Alexandre Brongniart and a ceramics school. Explosives,... Read more
Alfred University Alfred University
Alfred University at Alfred, N.Y.; state and private support; coeducational; opened as a school 1836, chartered 1857 as Alfred Univ. It is especially known for the College of Ceramics, which is among the few institutions in the United States offering a doctoral program in ceramics. The college is... Read more
Sir Henry Cole Sir Henry Cole
Cole, Sir Henry (1808–82). English industrial designer, museum director, and art-adminis-trator of genius. He reformed the Public Record Office (1823–38), helped to introduce the Penny Post (1838–42), and commissioned (1843) John Calcott ‘Clothes’ Horsley... Read more
faience faience
faience [for Faenza , Italy], any of several kinds of pottery, especially earthenware made of coarse clay and covered with an opaque tin-oxide glaze. The term is particularly applied to the ceramic ornaments and figurines of the ancient Egyptians. See also majolica .... Read more

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